Love is one thing that can't be tokenized.

If blockchains become like economic water, trying to "tokenize love" would be akin to washing cotton candy with that water https://twitter.com/muratpak/status/1315047921197420547

Dating apps are the step before attempts to tokenize love. It's a common complaint that dating apps "commoditize love."

That's right; dating apps make a special connection something that people aim to produce efficiently, like a commodity.

In so doing, love loses its essence.

Everything we do is for our social relationships, which feed back into the relationship with ourselves.

Often people get confused, that the money, or the token, gets you to the end destination.

And that end, whether you acknowledge it or not, is love...belonging.

"The outstanding discovery of recent historical and anthropological research is that man's economy, as a rule, is submerged in his social relationships." -Polanyi https://www.amazon.com/Great-Transformation-Political-Economic-Origins/dp/080705643X

"He does not act so as to safeguard his individual interest in the possession of material goods; he acts so as to safeguard his social standing, his social claims, his social assets." -Polanyi

What is (wo)man but a quintessence of dust? As great as blockchains are, the essence will always elude tokenization.

Relatedly, a warning for networks trying to buy loyalty...

...love can't be bought.